Evaluation of thrust force and surface roughness in drilling composite material.pdfVIP

j o u r n a l o f m a t e r i a l s p r o c e s s i n g t e c h n o l o g y 2 0 3 ( 2 0 0 8 ) 342–348 j o u rn al h omepage: www.elsevi er.c om /locate/j matprotec Evaluation of thrust force and surface roughness in drilling composite material using Taguchi analysis and neural network C.C. Tsao a,∗, H. Hocheng b a Department of Automatic Engineering, Ta Hua Institute of Technology, Hsinchu 30740, Taiwan, ROC b Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan, ROC a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: This paper presents the prediction and evaluation of thrust force and surface roughness in Accepted 4 April 2006 drilling of composite material using candle stick drill. The approach is based on Taguchi method and the artificial neural network. The experimental results indicate that the feed rate and the drill diameter are the most significant factors affecting the thrust force, while Keywords: the feed rate and spindle speed contribute the most to the surface roughness. In this study, Candle stick drill the objective was to establish a correlation between the feed rate, spindle speed and drill Drilling diameter with the induced thrust force and surface roughness in drilling composite lami- Composite material nate. The correlations were obtained by multi-variable regression analysis and radial basis Radial basis function network function network (RBFN) and compared with the experimental results. The results indicate Thrust force